The Colorado Department of Education recently released some of its data from the Colorado Measures of Academic Success test, which tested fourth- and seventh-graders in social studies and fifth- and eighth-graders in science. According to the article, fourth-graders scored 15 percentage points higher that the state average in the highest category of “Strong and Distinguished,” while seventh-graders scored 10 percent higher. As for science, fifth-graders and eighth-graders scored 20 and 19 percentage points higher, respectively.

The article also noted that some of LPS schools’ overall scores slipped down from previous years.